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Animals eat each other. They feed other animals. They spread seeds to propagate plant life. Their decomposing bodies fertilize the earth. There is an ecosystem
by whalesalad 3y ago
Animals eat each other. They feed other animals. They spread seeds to propagate plant life. Their decomposing bodies fertilize the earth. There is an ecosystem that exists.
Humans don’t have any predators. We’ve created a society where everyone feels entitled to exist. Animals don’t feel entitled to exist. They fight daily to survive. We fight daily to play the game that us humans created. It’s not real, it’s all fabricated: 401k’s, board member seats, search engine optimization, globalization, offshore manufacturing, advertising revenue, taxes, traffic lights, the NFL, American idol, TikTok dances, Prada clothing, Stanley cups, business casual, country clubs.
We have created the mess we are in. And there is too much momentum/inertia to shift course. We (as a society) will keep running on this treadmill until we collapse from exhaustion and hubris.
- xpe 3y ago> Animals eat each other. They feed other animals. They spread seeds to propagate plant life. Their decomposing bodies fertilize the earth. There is an ecosystem that exists. Humans don’t have any predators. We’ve created a society where everyone feels entitled to exist. Animals don’t feel entitled to exist. They fight daily to survive. We fight daily to play the game that us humans created. It’s not real, it’s all fabricated... This is moral confusion. Nature does not set the ethical standards to which we aspire. See the naturalistic fallacy.
- whalesalad 3y agoThese things you mention are honestly more examples of fabricated concepts. Are you a religious person by chance?
- xpe 3y agoThere are well-developed branches of ethics that are uncoupled from any religious assumptions. Including systems of ethics that reject various forms of moral relativism.
- xpe 3y agoThe term "socially constructed" is well-understood by many, including myself. Your use of "fabricated concepts" is not clear, however. Care to define it?
- xpe 3y ago> These things you mention are honestly more examples of fabricated concepts. Are you a religious person by chance? If you are trying to insult me, you should stop that behavior.
- whalesalad 3y agoI am genuinely not.
- xpe 3y agoOk, thanks. Why did you ask the question of e.g. am I religious? Is there a connection?
- xpe 3y ago> We (as a society) will keep running on this treadmill until we collapse from exhaustion and hubris. This is false certainty. You don't know what will happen; you haven't even given a handful of possible future scenarios. Society could go on for some time with rising inequality with tragic consequences, sure. Or we could grow out of this phase in hundreds of different ways. Or we could obliterate ourselves in nuclear war. There are many possibilities. Don't fixate on one. Will humanity (or some creation or derivative of ourselves) outlive our solar system? Now _that_ is a fun question to explore.